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...So is hunting for unusual properties, such as, in one case, an American whiskey distillery....
...Treasures of the American experiment....
...His mother was a Time Inc executive, and his father a Washington diplomat who worked for the US Agency for International Development....
...On the other side of things are the New York City metro area, Massachusetts, Florida, California, and most of the Great Lakes....
...Our chronicle of the rise in the American standard of living over the past 150 years rests heavily on the history of innovations, great and small alike....
...The essence of his intriguing plan is twofold. First, the government would guarantee all deposits, charging risk-based insurance premia....
...We live in an age of high anxiety. Americans nowadays fret about everything from the state of their finances to the quality of their family lives and the purity of their food....
...One of the companies they worked with, Made, is a marketing agency dedicated to supporting American manufacturing....
...For implementation, Dodd-Frank requires an additional almost 400 pieces of detailed rule-making by a variety of US regulatory agencies....
...I have no clue why this is not being acclaimed as the great American novel of our times....
...“I think the most interesting potential change at the agencies is at the [Federal Deposit Insurance Commission],” says Brian Gardner, head of Washington research at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods....
...There has also been no progress on the insurance front. Again, American exceptionalism prevails....
...It has diversified into new areas: the agency has spent the past three years building a sports practice that represents some of the biggest stars in basketball, American football, soccer and baseball....
...As in the re-insurance market, the long chain of CDS contracts may create unknown concentration risks....
...Today, however, the 11,200-unit complex has also become the unlikeliest emblem of the great housing bubble....
...As Evans-Pritchard notes, Janjuah has a “loyal following in the City”: He was one of the very few analysts to speak out early about the dangerous excesses of the credit bubble....
...Just over a year ago, Bob Hullinghorst, treasurer of Boulder county, Colorado, put a chunk of the local government’s cash into an American money market fund....
...But the homogenising factor developed over the years was bond insurance....
...Even though Demchak himself had gone to great lengths to sell JP Morgan’s super-senior risk to AIG and other insurance groups, he had never imagined that it could pose more than a moderate risk....
...In recent years the derivatives world has epitomised the libertarian ethos of the great free-market economist....
...Millions of Americans are still seeing only modest price weakness in their area, at least so far....
...Soon a satellite picture appeared on the screen, and after a few enlargements, a patch of land along a road in Kentucky was visible....
...Group Inc....
...Hungary is of great interest to hedge funds; it's hard to find double digit rates these days, albeit a return that could face devaluation risk....
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